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of product and resulting compensation of any workman employed in or
about any such mine, who shall knowingly or of gross negligence so arrange,
construct or operate any such instrument that an incorrect determination
and compensation may be reported, or shall make or permit to be made an
incorrect and fraudulent record and account thereof, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor; and every day any such instrument is so arranged, con-
structed, or operated to obtain such incorrect determination, or. such
incorrect and fraudulent record and account is made or permitted to be
made, shall be a separate offense.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 159. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 158.

159. It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to cheat pr
defraud, to place upon any car or other container loaded by any other person
a number or check number; or with such intent to change, exchange, sub-
stitute, alter or remove any such number or check number; and any such
act shall be a misdemeanor.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 160. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 159.

160. Every operator of any such mine shall make payment in lawful
money of the United States semi-monthly to his employees, laborers and
wageworkers, or to their authorized agents, at their respective places of
employment, at intervals of not more than seventeen days. In case any
such operator shall refuse to pay at the times above set forth to his
employees, laborers or wageworkers the wages due them, or any of them,
said operator shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
See art. 23, sec. 150.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 161. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 160.

161. Whenever an operator of any mine in this State discharges an
employee, all wages due such employee and unpaid at the time of discharge
shall become due and payable immediately.

TITLE IX—SAFETY, SANITATION, HEALTH, ETC.

CHAPTER XXIV—Mine Accidents.
An. Code, 1924, sec. 162. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 161.

162. There shall be kept at each such mine at a place convenient to the
mouth of the mine, such adequate equipment, sufficient for the number
of persons employed, as may be required by the Bureau to be used in caring
for persons injured in or about such mine, and for conveying them to their
homes or to a hospital.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 163. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 162.

163. Whenever any person shall receive any injury in or about any
such mine, the mine foreman shall immediately see that such person
receives adequate medical or surgical attention.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 164. 1922, ch. 307, sec. 163.

164. The Bureau shall have power, whenever the Chief Mine Engineer
shall think desirable and the Governor, upon recommendation of the Com-
missioner of Labor and Statistics shall approve, to provide and maintain